Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CDTV - hope yet! Message-ID: <7500@gollum.twg.com> Date: 8 Jul 90 23:01:42 GMT References: <1990Jun22.034017.7806@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1990Jun22.170902.7410@csmil.umich.edu> <1990Jun22.192746.16666@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1990Jun27.140342.13104@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 28 In article <1990Jun27.140342.13104@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@frith.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes: >In article <1990Jun22.192746.16666@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) writes: >>csmil.umich.edu!fribourg.csmil.umich.edu!chymes writes (chimes in?): >>They certainly don't buy $1000 CD players! >Some of the possibilities for CDTV as I see them: > Foreign language instruction. Vocabulary, phrasing, etc. etc. etc. > You can even have instruction on the accent, which is very > important in many languages. etc.. Generally speaking ... there's already a pretty big market out there for instructional video tapes of many kinds. A big problem with instructional movies is the lack of interaction with users. The information just pours out of the screen without any way to change the material presented to suit the student, etc etc Having it be a programmable computer rather than just a video player can give the interaction & adaptiveness needed. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF weenie, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!